About the Author

Mel Scult is a professor emeritus of Judaic studies at Brooklyn College and a professor emeritus of history at City University of New York, Graduate Center. He is author and editor of several books, including The American Judaism of Mordecai Kaplan (New York University Press. 1990) and Judaism Faces the Twentieth Century: A Biography of Mordecai Kaplan (Wayne State University Press, 1993).

Reviews

Communings of the Spirit is a wonderful book to dip in and out of, to feel the power of a fine thinker, well educated in Jewish, American, and Western thought, to get a sense of where American Judaism was in his day as a way to look at it in out own.-- "American Jewish World"

Reading Mordecai Kaplan's diaries is like standing over the shoulder of a brilliant and troubled man as he struggles to define his emerging philosophy of Judaism, while at the same time attempting to conceal from disapproving eyes the heterodox views he was formulating.--Rabbi Ira Eisenstein "Founder and First President, Reconstructionist Rabbinical College"